the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
envisage".
- * Title: **Programming PCI-Devices under Linux**
-
- :Author: Claus Schroeter.
- :URL: ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz
- :Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
- :Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
- Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
- as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
- and perform busmastering.
-
- * Title: **Writing Character Device Driver for Linux**
-
- :Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
- :URL: ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz
- :Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
- ports in user space, kernel environment.
- :Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
- bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
-
* Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
:Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
:Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
bitmaps, invariants...
- * Title: **Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem**
-
- :Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
- :URL: ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
- :Keywords: ext3, journaling.
- :Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
- capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
- problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
-
- * Title: **Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2**
-
- :Author: Richard Gooch.
- :URL: http://www.safe-mbox.com/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
- :Keywords: 2.2, changes.
- :Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
- from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
-
- * Title: **Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4**
-
- :Author: Richard Gooch.
- :URL: http://www.safe-mbox.com/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html
- :Keywords: 2.4, changes.
- :Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
- from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.
-
* Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
:Author: Ori Pomerantz.
both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
- * Title: **Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers**
-
- :Author: Detlef Fliegl.
- :URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/
- :Keywords: USB, universal serial bus.
- :Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should
- give detailed information about the current state of the USB
- subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section
- will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about
- different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail
- you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second
- section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the
- device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will
- be explained step by step. The last section of this document
- contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes".
- :Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
- published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
- of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
-
* Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
:Author: various
access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
- * Title: **Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New Features**
-
- :Author: Alan Cox.
- :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html
- :Keywords: ports, porting.
- :Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
- 2.2 kernels.
-
- * Title: **Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II**
-
- :Author: Alan Cox.
- :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/238
- :Keywords: ports, porting.
- :Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
-
* Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
:Author: Paul Mackerras.
camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
:Description: The title says it all.
- * Title: **PCI Management in Linux 2.2**
-
- :Author: Alan Cox.
- :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/452
- :Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.
- :Description: The title says it all.
-
- * Title: **Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals**
-
- :Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig.
- :URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
- :Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache.
- :Description: A little book used for a short training course.
- Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup),
- process management, VFS and more.
-
* Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
:Author: Glenn Herrin.
code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
dropper example.
- * Title: **Get those boards talking under Linux.**
-
- :Author: Alex Ivchenko.
- :URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html
- :Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,
- memory allocation.
- :Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data
- acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic
- overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to
- interrupt handling.
- :Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at
- :URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html
-
* Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
:Author: David Hinds.
describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
Card Services.
- * Title: **The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation**
-
- :Author: Neil Brown.
- :URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html
- :Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd.
- :Description: The title says it all.
- :Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel).
-
* Title: **A Linux vm README**
:Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
- * Name: **Kernel Traffic**
-
- :URL: http://kt.earth.li/kernel-traffic/index.html
- :Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
- :Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
- discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
-
- * Name: **CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX**
-
- :URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org
- :Keywords: changelist.
- :Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel
- release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads
- the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,
- too.
-
- * Name: **New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ**
-
- :URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- :Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.
- :Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to
- communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing
- list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains
- it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of
- interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who
- is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.
-
* Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
dcache.
- * Name: **Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel**
-
- :Author: Gary (I suppose...).
- :URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html
- :Keywords: linux, community, everything!
- :Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
- of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux
- users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major
- categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,
- sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de,
- but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999.
-
* Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
:Author: The Linux-MM team.
:URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
:URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
- :URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
:URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
- :URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/
- :URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/
:Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
:Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
you have a better/another one, please let me know.
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+Document last updated on Mon 2016-Sep-19
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